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Elastic power or force. Heavens! what a spring was in his arm! Dryden.

Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous. By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say. Beau. & Fl.

e men of squeamish taste to entertain. Southern. So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven. M. Arnold.

To be consistent; to agree; to accord. Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing But what may stand with honor. Massinger.

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulæ. His eyen twinkled in his head aright, As do the stars in the frosty night. Chaucer.

The quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens.

To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven. [Obs. or R.] B. Jonson.

speech; language. [Obs. or Scot.] Ye have as merry a steven As any angel hath that is in heaven. Chaucer.

e musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement. Their heavenly harps a lower strain began. Dryden.

ne not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger. Milton.

f a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein. What mean those colored streaks in heaven Milton.

d by a long step; as, a masculine stride. Pope. God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom. Cowper.

Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial. Bp. Warburton.

Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories. Barrow.

act of indicating by signs; a slight indication. [R.] "The subindication and shadowing of heavenly things." Barrow.

To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink. "Heaven's subsiding hill." Dryden.

rage the observation made by heathen writers. Atterbury. Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine. South.

Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.

Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven. Waterland.

Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly; as, supernal grace. Not by the sufferance of supernal power. Milton.